You'll Never Guess the Top-Performing Stock of the 21st Century

When asked about stocks with the top returns this century, most people probably first think about technology companies. And it's true that shares of Apple returned 28,200% while putting iPhones in over a billion people's hands, while Amazon returned 6,200% from its leadership in e-commerce and its head start on the cloud computing revolution through Amazon Web Services. Shares of Alphabet trade up 13,400% since its 2005 IPO, thanks largely to Google's spot as the dominant search engine, while shares of N ...